The Association for Downloadable Media, an industry group focusing on podcasting and new media, today unveiled proposed advertising standards for use with downloadable media. The proposed ad units are offered with an eye toward making negotiations smoother between content creators and advertisers. The proposed standards were presented Wednesday morning in an ADM forum at the […]

The audience for podcasts is way up, according to the latest research by Arbitron/Edison Media Research. Their study, The Podcast Consumer Revealed, found that: The audience for audio podcasts grew 38% in the last year; The audience for video podcasts grew 45% in the last year; About 30% of regular Internet users have downloaded a […]

It’s tax day in the US, and it looks like that’s not the only bad news. Here are a few news items related to new media that aren’t exactly making my day: Twitter is adding advertising. Would you like spam with that tweet? Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto is sort of optional; they run new […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Michael Baron has announced that he’s auctioning off his Twitter account: Baron is effectively wanting to monetize the attention that his Twitter account receives. Per the eBay auction: The winner of this auction gets my account with all of my followers. The account is in my name now, but the winner of […]

In a paper published in today’s issue of Science, a team at IBM’s research centre in San Jose, California, said they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs – or 3,500 films – and cost far less […]

Blockbuster is working on an Apple TV-killer, according to reports. The home video giant is developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets and is expected to announce the offering sometime this month. Blockbuster declined comment, but a spokeswoman for the company said: “We’re talking to numerous companies and vendors about products, […]

The BBC has announced that its iPlayer video service will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii. iPlayer is a video download and streaming service that lets people catch up with BBC programming. An early version of the service should be available starting today but more polished software will be released as the service is […]

The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting article that takes a look at the guys behind the wildly successful video podcast, WillItBlend? George Wright and Tom Dickson have managed to do two things on the Web that advertising execs worldwide have yet to achieve: launch a successful viral video campaign – and make money from […]

LibSyn‘s stat problems continue to plague users of this popular podcast hosting service.  Here’s their latest update on the issue: Latest episodes not showing up in stats We have temporarily stopped the stats engines- meaning no new updates of any files will occur for the time being. We are working on a plan to recover […]

The iPhone is rapidly increasing Apple’s share of the browser market, according to the latest figures from StatCounter. About 1 in 400 browsers on the Internet are now using Safari on the iPhone or iPod touch. Apple increased its share of the Internet browser market in the US by 64% between December and March, according […]